Happy Birthday to my brother, and a Happy St George’s Day to you all.
The plan was to head to work this morning but then in the late morning go and sort out our driving licenses.
First stop was to buy a small booklet which will hold the licenses. After a small confusion over language, stage one was complete.
Stage two – Passport photos. We headed to the photo shop were a man greeted us outside. We sat on a bench as his two friends held a purple curtain up behind us and with his 1960’s Nikon camera our photos taken. One hour later and we had six passport photos each, all for £3.50.
Stage three – The eye tests. The plan has come unstuck. They are shut until Tuesday.
Nothing we can do but start again on Tuesday. At least two stages are complete, only another 4 to go!
Tonight we are entertaining. John and his family are coming over for dinner. We are having spag bol and garlic bread, with ice cream for pudding.
It was a great success, and great for our language skills. They have very little English so we ate with the dictionary with us. First time for spag bol and garlic bread for them but they seemed to enjoy. The ice cream was a real hit. We enjoyed sharing photographs of back home and our wedding and finished the evening showing them a planet earth.
I have a wind up penguin which I had given Baraka, the youngest at 3 years, to play with as we talked. They had no idea what a Penguin was. David Attenborough kindly showed us about penguins and the poles. Watching them see these weird strange creatures was just priceless.
This is why we are here. For moments like this, we will go to bed tonight beaming.
Tomorrow we are heading to Nzega, a three hour drive away. We have been invited to an ordination service on Sunday, and as Monday is a national holiday we are making a weekend of it. We have no idea what to expect, all we know is Nzega is a small town and goggle doesn’t have any real pictures!
We will fill you in on our return.
A parcel from the UK brought some Dairy Milk delight. John had no intention of wasting any as he licked the wrapper clean. A real treat!
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